When I realised I didn't have to be an expert, I almost cried. Well
almost.
If I had cried, they would have been tears of relief and
joy.
Thank God, I don’t have to be an expert.
Suddenly a whole weight of pressure was lifted off my
shoulders. I was free.
The last thing the world needs is another expert.
Instead we need explorers, adventurers, emotional daredevils, brave hearts of the soul. People that go out to the limits of their personal boundaries and report back on what they’ve discovered.
They share and enlighten.
They invite us to go on our own journey, to find out for
ourselves.
They let us know that if they’ve done it, we can too.
All over. Go back to watching TV.
I can come up with kick arse campaign ideas, but I’m not an
expert. Creativity is alien to experts.
I write to understand.
I write to share
I write to show you that it’s perfectly safe for you to do
it too.
Because if I feel something then you probably do too.
I’m not an expert. I don’t have the answers.
I’m an explorer.
But you are too.
I loved it.
ReplyDeleteI'm a graphic designer....and sometimes when someone says something like that to me "you're the expert!"...I think to myself "no way, I just do my best to help you and achieve something nice, meaningful and appealing"
Being the expert means in some way losing the ability to get surprised, to discover, to fail.
That's the perfect way to look at it Corina.
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